Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 133
Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I WISE COUNSELLOR 133 said was: "The moment Mirz a Sahib entered my court room and I looked at him I realised that he was not of this world. His soul seemed to be in communion with the Divine. Though he was accused of a grave offence, I could see that he was not capable of any such thing. I gave him a chair and asked him to sit on the dais. I was impressed by his nobility and magnanimity. I was convinced of the truth of his claim that he was a Prophet, and because of it I have believed ever since that Muhammad sa was a true Messenger of Allah. " It is noteworthy that some years after his scandalous behaviour in the case, ‘Abdul H am i d repented sincerely of the grave wrong he had committed and joined the Ahmadiyya Movement. One Sa‘dull a h of Ludhiana, who was a convert to Islam from Hinduism, had conceived bitter hostility towards the Promised Messiah as , to which he gave expression in foul language. He predicted that the Promised Messiah as would die without issue and the Movement founded by him would peter out after his death. In answer to him the Promised Messiah as announced that he had been vouchsafed the revelation that Sa‘dull a h himself would remain issueless. In the years that followed, the Promised Messiah as was blessed with additions to his progeny but Sa‘dull a h was left only with the one son who was in his early youth at the time of the revelation vouchsafed to the Promised Messiah as. Towards the end of 1906, the Promised Messiah as set out his prophecy concerning Sa‘dull a h, among numerous other signs and prophecies in a book he was writing, and emphasised that neither Sa‘dull a h nor his son, who was now in his late twenties, would have issue. A well-known lawyer, who was a prominent member of the Ahmadiyya